THE BACK OF THE CLASS
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THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 48 min
England and the American Midwest, 1877 to 2017. A reading difficulty is described by a German physician, named by a Sussex doctor in 1896, mapped by a Glasgow eye surgeon and an Iowa neurologist, and then spends most of a century failing to reach the classrooms where it would have mattered.
THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 20 min
California, Pennsylvania and New York, 1950 to 2022. Three American boys are sorted early and sorted low. Mike Sinyard reaches junior college needing remedial reading, remedial math and remedial English, and calls the classes bonehead.
THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 22 min
Koblenz, Germany, in the last years of the twentieth century. A boy failing at school leaves at sixteen and is hired — legally, on a registered contract, for a monthly wage — as a trainee in computing.
THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 4
4 parts · 16 h 46 min
Connecticut, Queens, northern Virginia and Los Angeles, 1945 to 2016. Four American men come off the schooling track early, by four routes with almost nothing in common. Casey Neistat leaves a Connecticut high school at seventeen with a son already born, and takes public assistance in a trailer park.
THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 5
4 parts · 16 h 1 min
Utah, Toronto and Brooklyn, 1959 to 2021. Three boys fail at the one thing school is built to grade: getting what they know onto paper at speed. David Neeleman leaves a Salt Lake County high school with mostly C's and D's and learns only in his late thirties, from a paperback, that there is a name for it.
THE BACK OF THE CLASS Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 1 min
The United States, Britain, Germany and Canada, 1940 to 2024. Fourteen people who were sorted to the bottom of a classroom are now rich enough that their schooling is an anecdote they tell on a podcast. This closing volume does the arithmetic the first five could not.